Category Archives: Attribution

Fundamental disagreement about climate change

Posted on May 30, 2018 by | 697 comments

by Judith Curry

How can the fundamental disagreement about the causes of climate change be most effectively communicated?

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Sea level rise acceleration (or not). Part V: detection & attribution

Posted on March 21, 2018 by | 134 comments

by Judith Curry

In looking for causes, I have applied the ‘Sherlock Holmes procedure’ of eliminating one suspect after another. The procedure has left us without any good suspect. Thermal expansion was the candidate of choice at the time of the first IPCC review. The computed steric rise is too little, too late, and too linear. – Walter Munk

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Posted in Attribution, Oceans

What are the main sources of heat that account for the incremental rise in temperature on Earth?

Posted on March 9, 2018 by | 227 comments

by Judith Curry

Suggestions for the climate ‘red team’ response.

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Will advances in groundwater science force a paradigm shift in sea level rise attribution?

Posted on March 4, 2018 by | 117 comments

by Jim Steele

 A better accounting of natural groundwater discharge is needed to constrain the range of contributions to sea level rise. The greater the contribution from groundwater discharge, the smaller the adjustments used to amplify contributions from meltwater and thermal expansion.

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Posted in Attribution, Oceans

The Rise and Fall of Central England Temperatures: Part II

Posted on March 3, 2018 by | 140 comments

by Tony Brown

This article examines the continued cooling of CET this century

  • Looks at a similar scenario of regional cooling in America
  • Examines CET related urbanisation issues, and the current Met office allowances for this
  • Notes the centuries long general warming of our climate.
  • Notes considerable English seasonal variability over the centuries
  • Examines the key component parts of the weather that affect the British Isles
  • Queries whether wind direction, strength and longevity are major factors in shaping our climate over the centuries.

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Posted in Attribution, Data and observations, History

Nature Unbound VIII – Modern global warming

Posted on February 26, 2018 by | 871 comments

by Javier

Summary: Modern Global Warming has been taking place for the past 300 years. It is the last of several multi-century warming periods that have happened during the Neoglacial cooling of the past 3000 years. Analysis of Holocene climate cycles shows that the period 1600-2100 AD should be a period of warming. The evidence suggests that Modern Global Warming is within Holocene variability, but the cryosphere displays a non-cyclical retreat that appears to have undone thousands of years of Neoglacial ice advance. The last 70 out of 300 years of Modern Global Warming are characterized by human-caused, extremely unusual, rapidly increasing CO2 levels. In stark contrast with this rapidly accelerating anthropogenic forcing, global temperature and sea level appear to have continued their rising trend with no perceptible evidence of added acceleration. The evidence supports a higher sensitivity to CO2 in the cryosphere, suggesting a negative feedback by H2O, that prevents CO2 from having the same effect elsewhere.

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Posted in Attribution, Sensitivity & feedbacks

Nature Unbound VII – Climate change mechanisms

Posted on January 21, 2018 by | 68 comments

by Javier

Climate variations that alter the angular momentum of the atmosphere modify the speed of the Earth’s rotation, which affects the length of day (LOD). Alterations in LOD integrate different climate-affecting phenomena, and can anticipate turning points in climate.

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Posted in Attribution, Solar